“You have an appointee information sheet in your packet,”
said County Manager Joe Pritchard, and that’s all we learned about
Michael Smith, who did not appear to speak, either,
at yesterday morning’s Work Session.
County Chairman Bill Slaughter did encourage the Commissioners
to send in information sheets on any other nominees they might come up with
for the Tourism Authority
before tonight’s 5:30 PM voting Regular Session.
He did not encourage the public to apply.
But if you want to, here is
the application form.

Why does the county leave us guessing and not just name who resigned,
and say who Michael Smith is?
Maybe they’ll say at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session this morning at 8:30 AM,
or maybe when they vote tomorrow at 5:30 PM.

“Mr. Michael Smith has expressed interest in being appointed to” the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center And Tourism Authority,
says Continue reading →

Most of the meeting (13 and a half minutes) was about
Bill Branham’s subdivision,
which passed,
with the Chairman breaking the tie because one Commissioner recused himself.
Opponents took up almost another minute
leaving the room.

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Dave Hetzel from Tifton will appear via video at the
Tourism Authority
Tuesday morning to talk about the
Alapaha River Water Trail
that WWALS Watershed Coalition is preparing.
Here’s the agenda, sent by VLCCCTA board member Tim Carroll. -jsq

They talked about
financials and events vs. event days; they had 25 events in January, down
slightly from the same month a year ago, but event-days were similar.
Perhaps someone would like to listen to the whole thing and report back on what they did?

As 8:00 came there was apparently not a quorum, so calls went out to
missing
members to see if one more could be attacted. At 8:15 it was
clear that there would be no additional members coming so no formal
meeting was held, no votes were taken but an informal review of the
agenda was performed:

And did I get the right Rick Williams in that picture?
That one is
Pastor of Northside Baptist Church.
Is he the same Rick Williams who is Vice Chairman of VLCCCTA?
(Google didn’t find any pictures for Chairman Rob Evans.)
If it’s an honor and a privilege to serve on an Authority, shouldn’t
the Authority tell us who is serving, instead of making us guess?

Stopped by the main desk of the Conference Center Wednesday.
I asked for a list of the current members of the board
and was provided a photocopy of a February 2012 list.
See also
LCC 2012-11-13.
-gretchen

Board of Directors

February 1, 2012

Commissioner Joyce Evans
Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
Term Expires: December 31, 2014

Councilman Tim Carroll
Valdosta City Council
Term Expires: December 31, 2015

Andy Anderson
Lowndes County Board of Commissioner Appointment
Term Expires: December 31, 2014